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Two old friends have joined up to bring a new food experience to Smith Mountain Lake.

Benjamin McGehee and Matt White, owner of Mariner’s Landing, have been friends for 30 years, ever since they played Little League baseball together. When White needed somebody to take over the food service at The Pointe at Mariner’s Landing, he thought of McGehee. McGehee started Benjamin’s Great Cows and Crabs in Forest several years ago.

The Bedford Bulletin won four awards during Saturday’s Virginia Press Association banquet held in Norfolk, including two first place honors.

Bulletin Sports Editor Mike Forster won first place in the special sections category for his “Football Preps Preview” section that appeared in the paper last August. Forster also won second place for sports column writing.

Bulletin Editor Tom Wilmoth won first place in the education writing category and third place in the editorial writing category.

Charges against a 62-year-old Coleman Falls man for selling roosters for fighting have been certified to a Bedford County Grand Jury.

Avery Fitzgerald was arrested in December for selling roosters on two different occasions to undercover investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. The BCSO also confiscated about 50 roosters from Fitzgerald’s property. He is charged with two felony counts of aiding, abetting or promoting animal fights, specifically roosters.

I am writing in reference to the letter in your March 11, 2009 edition submitted: By David Goode “Limited Confidence.” While I agree with Mr. Goode and the point he is trying to make, I do take exception with how he goes about it.

The problem is with one line in his letter stating “Increase Top Management salary while neglecting those who do the real work (Teachers). While I do believe our teachers need to have salaries equal to the surrounding areas, but what about:

I’m pleased to report that last week, Congress took swift, bipartisan, and decisive action to protect taxpayers. After it came to light that insurance companies who had taken billions in bailout funds had paid or intended to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in “retention” bonuses to the very executives who got us into this financial mess, the House put together a plan to block them.

Last month the House of Representatives rushed to consider the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” – the so-called stimulus bill. The Democratic Leadership revealed the final text of the legislation just ten hours before the House began consideration of this enormous bill.

In Seattle, Washington, it’s affectionately known simply as “the P.I.” The city’s daily newspaper, the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer,” has announced that it will cease publication and convert to an “online only” newspaper.